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number

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /ˈnʌmbə(r)/US /ˈnʌmbər/
noun

a word or symbol that represents an amount or a quantity

verb

to give a number to something as part of a series or list

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Mirroring the rapid growth of Amazon itself, the number of books available through the US Kindle store topped 460,000 in 2009, just two years after its launch.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University

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